Climate anomalies may play a major role in driving cholera pandemics

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Source: Shajal Shaik, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

New research suggests that an El Niño event may have aided the establishment of a novel cholera strain during an early 20th-century pandemic, suggesting climate anomalies could create opportunities for the emergence of new cholera strains.

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